I have a comment for all the guys out there that think the police should just handle it. If you read Bill McLellens articel today you’ll find a philosophy that says the cops shouldn’t handle a situation like that. Five bucks in a tip jar? We ‘d spend much more money chasing down and prosecuting the two kids that did it so it isn’t worth it. According to him reacting to crime should only be cost effecient. Forget the fact that it’s a crime and it should be punished. Forget right and wrong. Let’s just deal with whats cost effecient.

What these two kids did is a terrifying reminder that todays youth is incredibly stupid and self-centered. The only mildly redeeming situation is if these two turned themselves in and paid for what they’ve done. Otherwise, it’s just two more mindless MTV drones focused more on themselves than anything else.

My sympathy to the family of Roger. He was a hero! I would like to think I would probably have gone after the thiefs. Their photos are now out there and someone knows they are now murderers and I hope they get treated as such. Robbery, hit and run and murder…was it worth it for them? It is not the amount of money in the jar it was the principle. We as a whole people need to be responsible and hold others to do the right thing.

Yesterday I might have said YES, but today, I think I’ll have to say that it really depends on the situation.

I tend to react pretty quickly to things, so I might have done the same thing as yesterday’s would-be hero (God rest his soul). But I can’t see myself getting in the path of a car. I’m not that stupid.

Like many have said of themselves, I’d get the make/model and license # and let the paid profesionals deal with it.

I can’t say how I would have reacted. What I would like to see is the 20 Year Old get the chair and the 16-19 Girl get life in prison. Until people in this country start to realize there should be a punishment to fit the crime, that will never happen. They’re smart. They know what they did was wrong and they should pay for it.

PLEASE ZOOM IN ON THAT PICTURE. IT DOES NO GOOD UNLESS WE CAN ZOOM IN ON IT. ONCE THAT HAPPENS THEN IT WILL BE EASY TO FIGURE OUT WHO THESE PUNK KIDS ARE.

“Always there to help another” is how I would best describe Roger. An old neighbor, he was loyal, reliable, kind, and generous with his time. He lived his life to help others that could not do for themselves: driving the elderly to the airport,grocery store, walking their dogs, and willing to assist the neighbors at any given time. Putting all others before himself, I know that he naturally and instinctively ran after these teenagers to turn a wrong into a right. Roger was the type of man who would have given these kids the money himself had they truly needed it. Such a TRAGEDY…for all.

I can completely understand the good samaritan’s response. We own a business and our cook’s tip jar has been stolen several times. It is now chained to the counter to prevent any further theft. However, when this happens it makes a person so angry that someone would steal money that someone else has worked so hard to earn. The amount stolen is immaterial. It’s the act that angers a person and the fact that they will probably get by with it. I know if any one of my son’s had seen this person steal our tip jar, they would have done the same thing. What is wrong with people today? They have no respect for their fellow man.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the family of such a heroic and courageous man! He’s certainly worthy of respect and honor!

In my opinion, this type of stuff didn’t happen as much back in the old days when parents could spank a child and teach them right from wrong. Now it’s flat out scary to live in this society. That worse part about it is that it’s not necessarily a bad neighborhood that criminals are causing problems. They’re bold enough to come to nice neighborhoods to impose their unlawful ways.

I’m a huge advocate for concealed carry.

Nice comment #38 audrey…..geesh, I hope you never find yourself in danger and in need of a good samaritan, if everyone thinks like you, there won’t be one and you could end up losing your belongings, get hurt or much, much worse. On the other hand, I hope that people aren’t like you and a good samaritan saves you and teaches you a valuable life lesson.

What would I do? I would have intervened in the spirirt of doing the right thing. Exactly what, I do not know. Like some said above, we don’t know, we don’t know what Roger knew and saw, and so how can we really know until an urgent gut-reacting moment really presents itself to us. What Roger did was very honorable, it’s hard to imagine his life being worth $5, but I don’t think that’s the point either. Apparently it was his time to go, and I hope we all learn from his life and death, and from what it sounds, he is likely to be rejoicing with the Lord in heaven now.

To the perps, wow, that funny insignificant, stupid, stunt you pulled took someone else’s life, was it worth it? I hope you have plenty of time to ponder that from the confines of a dark musty cell.

These two kids need to go to jail for murder. There was no need to run someone over for a $5.00 tip jar. Maybe had those teens been taught to work for what you want instead of taking it or getting it for doing nothing this man may still be alive. Now all these lives are affected and an entire community all because of a stupid idea from a person who must not have much of a brain.